“Go to where the puck is going, not to where it was.” – Wayne Gretzky It’s incredible how huge the growing wealth of software development talent is here in Seattle. In fact I found that many of the Fortune 500 companies… Continue Reading →

I wanted to share with you a fix I discovered to address the scrolling issue we’ve been experiencing within the Developer Console for Chrome. It is really frustrating and time consuming when trying to scroll through your code and the… Continue Reading →

Update: I have changed the website theme to a more responsive and readable format to allow me to quickly add quality content that can be easily consumed. The Theme is Baskerville and was developed by Anders Norén.

This interactive map, developed with Tableau, is a creative way to interact with all active building permits for the city of Seattle, Washington. There are a ton of great features which could be added to the map to increase the… Continue Reading →

Podcasting is apparently still alive and well and there is actually a channel dedicated to administering Salesforce. I kind of happened about this discovery and it is actually done really well by Mike Gerholdt & Gillian Madill with guest speakers…. Continue Reading →

“Measure what is measurable, make measurable what is not.” – Galileo One of the very first custom functionality features that a Salesforce manager should implement into their instance is a couple of formulas used to measure data quality. These formulas… Continue Reading →

Be sure to check out all of the recorded sessions from this years Dreamforce on youtube. This youtube channel includes recorded sessions on the Streaming API, SOQL to SQL conversion, Analytics API, non-profit crm, and the keynotes which include conversations… Continue Reading →

This tutorial surfaces a way to dedupe accounts by record ID, rather than by record name. I have encountered a way to hack, or leverage rather, salesforce standard functionality for the greater good of mankind. There is an annoying limitation… Continue Reading →

For some time now the ability to test drive mobile versions of a website has been as easy as changing some settings on your browser. This tutorial will help to surface that functionality. We’ll focus on the touch version of… Continue Reading →

I find myself needing to mass update some code quite frequently. And quite frequently those updates involve replacing text or copying and pasting text. That in itself is of course as easy as hitting the replace all button in any… Continue Reading →

Chrome is my browser of choice. Not only is it faster than all of the other browsers, it also offers a vast collection of available extensions to add on the browser to create a richer internet experience. These extensions can… Continue Reading →

I use the Force.com IDE in Eclipse, and at the moment there is no support of the API version 21 or 22, or I should say there is no automatic support. If you are just getting into development with Javascript… Continue Reading →

I figured it wouldn’t be such a bad idea for me to post a list of advanced Salesforce.com Apex SOQL queries. This should be a good reference for the community as well as for my own personal reference. … Continue Reading →

So what are we to expect from this vague suggestion that a brand new Salesforce will be revealed on August 25th? “16 years, 48 product releases, thousands of features, millions of happy users — it’s been an incredible journey. Together, we’ve changed business… Continue Reading →